10 Times I Almost Broke Up With TWD

I have in my cold, unfeeling heart a warm spot for post-apocalyptic anything: movies, books, short stories, poems, etc. Adjacent to that is a second, smaller, but warmer spot reserved for zombies. Where these two magical places overlap is my love for The Walking Dead. That said, I have almost told TWD to call Tyrone several times during our relationship. And since we’re less than two weeks out from the beginning of the end of season 6 AND we left off in the middle of a very high stakes scene where several of my favorite characters are inches (and a ruining-ass kid – not Judith) from becoming an all-you-can-gore buffet, I feel like walking down memory lane (in chronological order). 1. Season 1/ Episode 1 Look at his smug misogynistic face. [divider type=”space_thin”] Two minutes in, “Reverend” Shane starts by explaining that his exes and “every other pair of boobs” in the world are too stupid to turn off lights. Because, well, fuck you, Shane. You’re a horrible person, the girl you love chooses someone else, and you die. Which is to say, it’s a great moment of characterization, but it was so immediate and repulsive that I almost never unpaused the DVR after Rev. Shane’s dissertation on the differences between the genders. But then, another great moment of characterization: Shane’s sudden tonal shift when he asks Rick about Lori. He is suddenly serious and interested in his friend (and his friend’s wife). We get a glimpse of Rick’s brooding nature – he’s a “close-mouthed sonofa…